The Southeast Regional Asthma Summit was the seventh in a series of local meetings supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Summit was designed to meet the following desired outcomes:

Understand the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of in-home education, environmental assessments and interventions, especially for children with poorly controlled asthma;

Leverage the evidence and business cases necessary to secure sustainable financing.

The Summit was coordinated locally by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV, the Georgia Department of Public Health and HUD’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Region IV, along with support from a diverse group of federal, state, and local agencies working to further healthy housing in the Southeast.